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The challenge of measuring the quality of life

Posted in ISRAEL 15 Vision, tagged , , , , , on March 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Reut’s regional development team recently participated in a meeting organized by ELKA, regarding measuring quality of life in Israel. Head of Israel’s Progress Index project (“Erech”), Anat Itay spoke about the process of defining, measuring and fostering an alternative index to GDP, which would focus on a variety of components of quality of life, in [...]

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Growth encouragement and workers’ rights – are they compatible?

Posted in ISRAEL 15 Vision, tagged , , , on March 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

The CEO of the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labor recently mentioned a dilemma which characterizes the Ministry’s work: “Does our will to encourage the economy fit in with our will to protect workers?” Even raising the question signifies a mindset that perceives a conflict between encouraging growth and the protection of workers’ rights. This [...]

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The Ministry of Justice Leads Unique and Global Development Policy

Posted in ISRAEL 15 Vision, tagged , , on January 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Unique and global development policy is a policy that leverages local assets while exploiting global trends. Such a policy involves investment of governmental inputs, including – but not solely restricted to – financial investment. The government has a wide range of options at its disposal which include, among other things, standardization, licensing, legislation and international [...]

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Regionalism (13): Trains Alone Will Not Solve the Periphery’s Problems

Posted in ISRAEL 15 Vision, Regional Leapfrogging, tagged , , , , on January 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

While railways in Israel are perceived as a magic solution to the periphery’s development, a recent roundtable held at Hebrew University which dealt with transportation and economic development raised reservations as to its usefulness.

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Training for the global market

Posted in ISRAEL 15 Vision, tagged , , , on January 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

 A recently published decision, by the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labor announces the beginning of a new program rewarding employers who train new employees. The employers, in return for the subsidy, would help these employees earn a professional diploma.

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An economic cluster and regional leapfrogging

Posted in ISRAEL 15 Vision, tagged , , , , on January 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

The regional development team has uploaded a term defining an economic cluster. An economic cluster is a dense network of companies and institutions in a certain geographic sphere. An economic cluster that is based on the region’s unique assets is an appropriate structure through which regional leapfrogging can be promoted.
 
 

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Dan Senor, on leapfrogging and innovation

Posted in ISRAEL 15 Vision, tagged , , on December 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

In a recently published interview, Dan Senor, one of the authors of the best-selling book Start-Up Nation (Along with Saul Singer), discusses the strong link between a socio-economic leapfrog and innovation.
 

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Capital Grants have failed to bring the periphery to the center

Posted in ISRAEL 15 Vision, Regional Leapfrogging, tagged , , , on December 29, 2009 | 1 Comment »

The Bank of Israel recently published research which examines the impact of capital grants and tax benefits resulting from the Capital Investment Encouragement Law on economic activity in the periphery.

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Regionalism (12): A Train in the North – What Aim Does it Serve?

Posted in ISRAEL 15 Vision, Regional Leapfrogging, tagged , , , on December 23, 2009 | 2 Comments »

A recent article in Ha’aretz reviewed the debate regarding building a train railway in the North: On the one hand, the Prime Minister, Minister of Transportation and Minister for the Development of the Galilee and Negev support building a fast train that will connect Carmiel – a major city in the Galilee – (and later [...]

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Regionalism (11): Expanding the Definition of ‘Accessibility’

Posted in ISRAEL 15 Vision, Regional Leapfrogging, tagged , , , on December 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Writing in TheMarker, Nehemia Shtresler brings evidence suggesting low demand for rail services between Beer Sheva and Dimona suggesting that one possible explanation is due to the train station stops being located outside Dimona’s city center thus making it less appealing in comparison to the bus alternative.
 The discourse concentrating on transportation efficiency is a part [...]

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